Health Care Reform

ObamaCare is proving to be an unmitigated disaster for the American people, raising insurance premiums and costing millions the coverage Obama promised they could keep. The law unfairly redistributes wealth from the young to the old, selling out America’s future for the sake of another costly entitlement. We need real health care reform, not a government takeover. We need market-based solutions that foster competition and empower individuals to keep health care where it belongs—between patients and their doctors.

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Democrats have long railed against monopolistic practices in the market place. Indeed the bedrock of the early progressive movement was busting up monopolies and taking big businesses to court. Few political movements have done battle with well-established business interests as effectively as the early progressives.

The most vulnerable people in America are on the brink of losing their health insurance and messaging from the Left has been consistently silent about addressing the issue, other than somehow blaming it on Republicans. Iowa’s individual healthcare market is hanging in the balance of monumental collapse. The fact is that the so-called “Affordable Care Act” is anything but affordable and has attacked the insurance market by doubling premiums and no one on the Left seems to want to talk about it.

Reports continue to come in about the results of implementing ObamaCare. Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on the effectuated enrollment, or in other words selected a plan for the first two months of the year and paid their first month’s premium of ObamaCare. The results were admittedly rather surprising as they did not meet the expectations of where the program was supposed to be at this point.

[...] Outside conservative groups, fearing that Senate GOP leaders are watering down the House bill’s Medicaid savings and rollback of ACA regulations, have meanwhile begun speaking out more forcefully in recent days. “Everything we’re hearing right now is frustrating and concerning to us,” said Jason Pye, director of public policy at FreedomWorks, a grass-roots-oriented conservative group.

At the moment, California is considering the possibility of implementing a single-payer healthcare system. SB 562, the Healthy California Act, would essentially expand Medicare coverage so that it covered every person in the state of California. Having been approved by the Senate, the bill now goes to the state Assembly where it has a chance of passing. However, if it does pass, it would be a massive problem for the state as it would face significant increased state spending, higher taxes, and decreased quality of health care.

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) reintroduced the CREATES Act, S. 974, in an effort to close regulatory loopholes at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that limit competition in the emerging market for biosimilars. Sen. Mike Lee and all of the other cosponsors of last year’s bill have returned as cosponsors. Rep. Tom Marino also introduced this bill in the House of Representatives on April 27th.